It is available for hundreds of different
platforms including all varieties of UNIX, as well as VMS,
Stratus VOS, DG AOS/VS. It works in
conjunction with its companion programs on Windows
3.x/9x/NT/2000, DOS, IBM Mainframes, and almost any other
platform you can think of.

As a serial communications program, the program includes a
sophisticated location-independent dialer and dialing
directory, allowing the same entries to be used from any
country or area within a country. On TCP/IP networks,
the program can act as Telnet client, Rlogin client, or as a
server that can be accessed from clients elsewhere on the
network. It can also make and use Sun and IBM X.25
connections.

It also offers online sessions with session logging,
character-set translation, and key mapping; character-set
translation for Western and Eastern European languages,
Cyrillic, Japanese, Greek, and Hebrew duing both terminal
connection and file transfer (a unique feature of Kermit
software), and in version 7.0 also Unicode.

Kerberos, SRP, and SSL/TLS security are available within
the constraints of U.S. export law.